Bibliography

This is a bibliography-in-progress of works published primarily by university/academic presses since 2006 on early American topics. If you would like to contribute titles to the list, please leave a comment with the relevant information.

Block, Sharon. Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Daut, Marlene L. Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

David, James Corbett. Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America–with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Davidson, Edward H. and William J. Scheick, Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason as Religious and Political Idea. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2012.

Grigg, John A. The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Gronim, Sara S. Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Gross, Robert A. and Mary Kelly. A History of the Book in America: Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Gruber, Ira D. Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Gunn, Robert Lawrence. Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Gunn, T. Jeremy and John Witte, eds. No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Gustafson, Sandra M. Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2011.

Häberlein, Mark. The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1820. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.

Ryan, William Randolph. The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Sachs, Honor. Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Sadosky, Leonard J., Peter Nicolaisen, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, eds. Old World, New World America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Scharff, Virginia. The Women Jefferson Loved. New York: Harper, 2010.

Scott, Rebecca J., and Jean M. Hébrard. Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

What is “The Junto?”

The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists—graduate students and junior faculty—dedicated to providing content of general interest to other early Americanists and those interested in early American history, as well as a forum for discussion of relevant historical and academic topics.